AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +1450%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Feb 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1792

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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